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Post by
seijulala
Hi there!
I've seen reports about focus magic on dps (shadow, fire, frostfire, warlock....), but none that mention healers (at least after-cata). I think is better to give the 3% crit buff to some healer because is more likely that a crit heal can save you from a wipe than a crit hit of some other dps.
My question is about which healer will benefit most of this. I think the order should be:
druids > paladin > shaman / priest_holy >> discipline
But I have no data to sustain that, only my personal experience.
Post by
hymer
There's a thought... I always try to guess who has the highest likelihood to crit and get me mah bonus. With the new boost to healing crits, healers are perhaps more likely to have some crit on them.
I can tell you that not all druid healers go the Living Seed route, though most do. So yeah, they're likely to give you something back, especially with all those HoTs rolling, able to crit at every tick. Haven't healed with any of the others since Wrath.
But there is this: Healing crits were boosted to try and get healers to value crit more. Healers like predictability.
May I suggest moving this to the general forum, btw? It has to do with quite a few classes, not just mages after all. You may get more attention from people with some broad healing experience.
Post by
seijulala
My question is about which healer will gain more with my buff (I don't care my dps improvement)
Post by
greywolfsage
Discipline Priests and Shamans value crit a whole lot more than the other 3.
The disc tree is based around crits, and shamans have mana regen and a free heal based around their crits, with a lesser weight placed on the damage-reduction buff that most priests spec for and shamans have access to as well.
Post by
hymer
My question is about which healer will gain more with my buff (I don't care my dps improvement)
I know. Hopefully someone who knows about healers across the board will take a look at it.
Post by
Meldoron
I would say that it depends on the fight a little.
Disc priest/Resto shaman > Holy paladin > Resto druid > Holy Priest
A little reasoning behind this:
Disc priests gain more throughput with crit than others because it procs a shield on who they crit, while shaman gain more mana regen with crits. That is why I said it might depend on the fight for who would get it. Is it a high damage fight or a long fight?
Holy paladins have more indirect throughput increase than others. They get a buff to healing when they crit, but it isn't a good basis for Focus Magic because they will get it fairly fast and keep it up anyway. The thing that puts them over druids and holy priests is that their holy shock crits reduce the cast time of their Flash of Light, Holy Light, and Divine Light by 1.5 seconds. It is nice, but I'd say the throughput gain is still less than that of a disc priest.
Druid is only above holy priest if they spec into Living Seed. It isn't very common to see a druid with it, but I would still put them higher on the off-chance that one does have it.
Holy priest is last because they only benefit they get is that it procs Inspiration. It is a good talents, but more than likely, it will proc of its own accord anyway.
That is my personal priority of healers to get it and my reasoning behind them. I maw have made a mistake somewhere, but I think I got everything.
Post by
seijulala
I didn't know that about disc priest, thanks for the answers!. I usually raid in groups of 10 so druids normally have living seed.
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